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Hugsten is a collaboration between Annsofie Jonsson and Håkan Jonsson, two Swedish artists living in Berlin, who focus on visual and sound art respectively, but transcend the boundaries when working together. Hugsten creates artworks and performances that allow them to explore crafts, memories, dreams, and chosen allies together. We are interested in the use of ritual in performances and approach it in three ways: Tactically, to create a receptive mind and a temporal suspension of disbelief in both the audience and ourselves; operationally, to enable construction of meaning beyond aesthetics; strategically, to allow us to imagine alternative futures.
The word hugsten (lit. will-stone) appears in Eddan, Hyndlas sång, verse 41, where Loke finds the heart(hugsten) of a woman, half-burnt on a linden wood fire, eats it, becomes pregnant and gives birth to all the weird creatures of the world.
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Recent
Recent
Healing Masculinity at Tibbaröd Biennalen 2025 together with Kellyosa Ersmark.
Inspired by Om Godheten av Willy Kyrklund and building on previous work by Kellyosa, we invoked Yog-Sothoth to twist time and send back a minotaur in time to remind toxic men in the past living in the area that they have a choice to be lions or ants. The ritual and mission was successful, and we now live in a better timeline.
HUGSTEN Performances
2025 Hyndlas sång - Thunder Perfect, Liebig 12, Berlin
2025 Healing Masculinity - Tibbaröd Biennalen, Stora Tibbaröd, Sweden, together with Kellyosa Ersmark, Minotaur.
2025 Cut-up poetry - Re-Opening for Sound [ action: movement ] poetry at G A R A G E, Berlin, Germany
2025 Häxeri - Untergrün Berlin, Germany
2025 Häxeri - Thunder Perfect #3, Pandora Untergeschoss, Berlin.
2024 Hyndlas song, vers 41 - Kulturnatta at Oceanen, Studio 50 Urban Art, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2024 En Erebos Phos - 23rd Mind Art & Magic, Vimmerby, Sweden.
2024 ANTINOMIAN - opening ritual performance, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, Germany.
2024 Alkemi - objects, sounds, and ritualistic fragments. Aktionsraum III, unstrained MOVEMENT, Kunstraum Reuter, Berlin, Germany.
2023 Proxemics - performance & sculpture. Ceramics, AI-generated non-lingual speech, sounds. Hörsägen by HUGSTEN, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, Germany.
2023 Ashes to Ashes - Hörsägen by HUGSTEN, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, Germany.
2023 Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust - Untergrün, Berlin, Germany.
2023 Under construction - El Puente, Vilaflor, Tenerife, Spain.
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Commissions
Unravelling the threads, commissioned by Helmholtz Institute for Marine Biodiversity.
Unravelling The Threads combines rhizomatic sculptural fragments of the complex and dynamic networks of marine food webs, constituted by predator-prey interspecies relationships, with sonifications of Lotka-Volterra equations, simulations of population dynamics described by Generalized Modeling of ecological networks, and identified network motifs such as Omnivory, TreeChain, and Apparent Competition. The project was a collaboration between Hugsten and Melanie Habermann at HIfMB, organized by Geraint Rhys.
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